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bootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)
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bootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes)

by Oscar Toledo G. Sep/26/2019



http://nanochess.org

https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue



It's compatible with 8088 (the original IBM PC)



If you want to assemble it, you must download the Netwide Assembler

(nasm) from www.nasm.us



Use this command line:



  nasm -f bin rogue.asm -l rogue.lst -o rogue.img

  nasm -f bin rogue.asm -Dcom_file=1 -o rogue.com



Youtube video:



  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMMr4z6kU5g



Play it on your browser: (v86 at parkertomatoes.github.io)



  https://tinyurl.com/y4447ph8



>> HOW TO PLAY <<



Move with the arrow keys to reveal the area where you are.

Any action is done by touching the target.



Any letter is a monster, the Aardvark monster is the most

easiest of the game, while the Zombie master monster is the

most difficult one. Touching them will cause a battle to

start, press any key to keep advancing the battle and see

how your HP goes down.



The diamonds are traps that will suck your HP.



The clover symbol is food. The square with a hole in the

center is armor, getting more of these means the monsters

will have a hard time hitting you. The up arrow is weapon,

getting more of these means the monsters will receive harder

hits.



The asterisk like symbol is gold, but doesn't affect the

gameplay nor is counted (because lack of space), but I wanted

to have gold in the game ;)



Finally the Amulet of Yendor is represented by a Female sign,

and it will appear only in level 26 or deeper. Once you get

the amulet, the ladders will start taking you to upper levels.



The game will get stuck once you lose all your HP or take the

last ladder to surface.



Enjoy it!



>> AND THERE WAS ROGUE <<



I was a young kid when I learned to put floppy disks inside an

old Televideo machine with green monochrome monitor, turning the

handle to close the door, and turning it again to open it and

insert another disk.



I learned by watching that you could type DIR, and then enter

the name of anything that appeared at the left side.



Didn't passed too much time until I saw I could execute only

the files with COM or EXE letters at the right side.



I played Digger, Jumpjoe, Columbia Invaders, Buzzard Bait,

J-Bird, Bushido, some Pacman-like games, and then I found a

game starting with a full text screen and then a tiny face

over a dotted background. It was called ROGUE.EXE.



You could move over the rooms and find things, like a ring,

armor, weapons, and monsters! Barely I could understand English

but it got me immediately because there were always things

around the corner, and more levels!



I went lazy and tried to go so deep as possible, finding the

ladders without fighting. Big mistake! A dragon appeared and

roared fire with ASCII letters, killing me immediately. I was

hooked!



Patience was the key, slowly started to gather experience

killing the small monsters, discovered how to get better

weapons and armor, avoided the rings (You could never know

the strange things these could do! Except of course when I

found the Identify scroll). Went to level 26 and retrieved

the amulet of Yendor, then started to go back to surface,

fighting for my life, avoiding monsters, and finally I was

out! I was ecstatic, and I was age 11.



It was one of these epic fables that you do only one time

in the life, since then I only played some minutes a few

games of Rogue for the nostalgia, but didn't had time again

to go to level 26.



>> 30 YEARS LATER... <<



But still I had the game in my mind, and decided that I

could write a smaller version for a boot sector, just as a

challenge.



I had "clear" specifications, it had to have the ASCII

graphics and gold (this made it a very difficult task).



  Statistics of source code files over development.



                lines bytes (com file)

  rogue0.asm     252   351  Sep/20/2019 07:18pm

  rogue1.asm     358   467  Sep/21/2019 10:00pm

  rogue2.asm     548   829  Sep/22/2019 05:54pm

  rogue3.asm     502   759  Sep/23/2019 05:22pm

  rogue4.asm     468   670  Sep/23/2019 07:03pm

  rogue5.asm     460   652  Sep/23/2019 09:43pm

  rogue6.asm     460   643  Sep/23/2019 10:16pm

  rogue7.asm     457   630  Sep/24/2019 07:08pm                    

  rogue8.asm     435   602  Sep/24/2019 07:48pm

  rogue9.asm     436   596  Sep/24/2019 09:44pm

  rogue10.asm    441   576  Sep/25/2019 01:35pm

  rogue11.asm    480   553  Sep/25/2019 10:24pm

  rogue12.asm    472   510  Sep/26/2019 12:24pm



I went into a coding spree and I had coded the whole game

in 3 days. But of course it was too big (rogue2.asm).



Then I had to optimize carefully the code and remove the

features that wouldn't fit even with all my effort, so there

went the roguelike monsters names (the easiest monster is A

for Aardvark, till the more difficult Z for Zombie Master,

feel free to invent more names).



At same time preserved the ASCII graphics for rooms and items,

but couldn't put inside scrolls or potions.



In the last iteration I removed the exp(erience) code because

it really didn't affect the gameplay and managed to get under

510 bytes.



I've put all the revisions inside the backup directory so you

can watch the process of optimization. I preferred to optimize

rather than remove features if possible.



And no, it isn't too easy to go to level 26 and get the Amulet

of Yendor.



>> ATTENTION <<        



Would you like to learn 8086/8088 programming? Then you

must get my new book Programming Boot Sector Games including

a 8086/8088/V20 crash course!



Now available from Lulu:



  Soft-cover

    http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/programming-boot-sector-games/paperback/product-24188564.html



  Hard-cover

    http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/programming-boot-sector-games/hardcover/product-24188530.html



  eBook

    https://nanochess.org/store.html



These are some of the example programs documented profusely

in the book:



  * Guess the number.

  * Tic-Tac-Toe game.

  * Text graphics.

  * Mandelbrot set.

  * F-Bird game.

  * Invaders game.

  * Pillman game.

  * Toledo Atomchess.

  * bootBASIC language.



After the success of my first book, if you need even

More Boot Sector Games then you must get this book!



  Soft-cover  http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/more-boot-sector-games/paperback/product-24462035.html



  Hard-cover  http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/more-boot-sector-games/hardcover/product-24462029.html



  * Follow the Lights

  * bootRogue

  * bricks

  * cubicDoom

  * bootOS